LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Gun control won’t end shootings

Your Sept. 19 editorial “Lessons from Oberlin” demonstrates the misguided belief that more gun control would prevent horrific shootings.

Despite your claim that gun control enjoys widespread public support, public opposition defeated an unprecedented demand for sweeping gun control from a sitting president. Public rejection unseated two elected gun-banning Colorado officials.

The number of people who seek concealed-carry training and licensing continually outpaces prior years.

Gun registration, the idea that we let the government know exactly who owns every firearm as some form of preventive safety, did nothing to prevent Sandy Hook or any other mass-casualty shooting.

In an effort to sensationalize the debate, you implied that an AR-15 rifle might have been used in the Navy Yard shootings, despite widespread reports that the weapon was a shotgun. The media’s obsession with demonizing one type of firearm as the cause of all mayhem demonstrates its ignorance of the topic.

Chicago has some of the most comprehensive gun control in the nation and had 500 homicides last year.

In those cities that implement gun control most agressively, the results are horrific numbers of homicides by firearm by the worst of our society.

Colorado’s rains are God’s tearsIf I were an Old Testament prophet, I would say that the excessive rains and flooding in Colorado were the tears of God, crying because the gun addicts of Colorado got two Democrats, who supported some gun control after the Aurora massacre, were removed from office by a recall election (“2 Colo. lawmakers ousted in gun control recalls,” Sept. 12).